Title :
Work in progress: Understanding the experiences of women of color in engineering
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
This qualitative study aims to understand the experiences of undergraduate women of color in engineering; specifically how their gender, race, and ethnicity shape their construct of an engineering identity. For many of the students, engineering identity was only understood along with gender and race/ethnic identities.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; engineering education; gender issues; engineering identity; ethnicity; gender; race; undergraduate women; Color; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Interviews; Shape; diversity; identity; women of color;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1353-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2012.6462330
